Every little thing needs its little opposite so without a tiny mouse there would be no cartoon about a big foolish cat trying to catch a smart mouse… The stories in the collection are very diverse, belong to the different genres but all of them show artful originality…He said that books weren’t made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes. There were two kinds of people, he said, wakers and dreamers. Wakers had once had the ability to dream but had lost it, and so they hated dreamers and persecuted them in every way. He said that teachers were wakers.The Room in the Attic is a postmodern romance full of mysterious Gothic overtones.Dangerous Laughter is an absurdist fable about the fad, which can make deadly even the harmless laughter.During the course of many generations the Tower grew higher and higher until one day it pierced the floor of heaven. Amidst the wild rejoicing, the overturned flagons and the clashing cymbals, a few thoughtful voices made themselves heard, for the event had long been anticipated and was known to be attended by certain difficulties.The Tower is a flowery philosophical parable in the style of Jorge Luis Borges.A Precursor of the Cinema, written in the genre of magical realism, is a moody tale about the creator of animated paintings.The third painting, Pygmalion, showed the sculptor in Greek costume standing back with an expression of wonderment as he clutched his chisel and stared at the beautiful marble statue. Observers reported that, as they looked at the painting, the statue turned her head slowly to one side, moved her wrists, and breathed in a way that caused her naked breasts to rise and fall, before she returned to the immobility of paint.We are ready to admire anything that is new but if miracles start happening every day they will become commonplace.